Comments on: Ascend, International Paper To Help Purchase Escambia County Mass Notification System

By: William

William — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:44:25 +0000

>>>If you have no power or cell service during and immediately after a hurricane for example, how is any type of internet going to work?

The internet based service would still work, wherever it is physically located away from here, and the company would still be able to make the call outs to whatever cell or landline phones still work.

Our NorthEscambia office, for instance, could be washed away and have no internet service, but NorthEscambia.com would continue to function. Same with this company, and they’d still be able to make their automated photo calls.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:33:10 +0000

If you have no power or cell service during and immediately after a hurricane for example, how is any type of internet going to work? I can see it working otherwise. The only communication we had out here was my weather radio, and the local stations weren’t working at the time.

By: Rufus Lowgun

Rufus Lowgun — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:00:39 +0000

I note that the federal government is picking up the county’s part of the tab. Not all government spending is bad.

By: West Kingsfield

West Kingsfield — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:34:28 +0000

Can someone explain in more detail how this is going to work?
Shouldn’t Gulf Power be added? Could a alert system with “traffic Alert” be added?
It would be nice to know how to be added to a texting system.
We have never received any alerts or test alerts.